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Release Notes -====================== - -Updates since v2.3 ------------------- - -Ports - - * Our default I/O size (8 MiB) for large files was too large for some - platforms with smaller SSIZE_MAX, leading to read(2)/write(2) - failures. - - * We did not check the curl library version before using - CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH feature that may not exist. - - -UI, Workflows & Features - - * The command usage info strings given by "git cmd -h" and in - documentation have been tweaked for consistency. - - * The "sync" subcommand of "git p4" now allows users to exclude - subdirectories like its "clone" subcommand does. - - * "git log --invert-grep --grep=WIP" will show only commits that do - not have the string "WIP" in their messages. - - * "git push" has been taught a "--atomic" option that makes push to - update more than one ref an "all-or-none" affair. - - * Extending the "push to deploy" added in 2.3, the behaviour of "git - push" when updating the branch that is checked out can now be - tweaked by push-to-checkout hook. - - * Using environment variable LANGUAGE and friends on the client side, - HTTP-based transports now send Accept-Language when making requests. - - * "git send-email" used to accept a mistaken "y" (or "yes") as an - answer to "What encoding do you want to use [UTF-8]? " without - questioning. Now it asks for confirmation when the answer looks - too short to be a valid encoding name. - - * When "git apply --whitespace=fix" fixed whitespace errors in the - common context lines, the command reports that it did so. - - -Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. - - * Implementation of N_() macro has been updated slightly to help us - detect mistakes. - - * Implementation of "reflog expire" has been restructured to fit the - reflogs better with the recently updated ref API. - - * The transport-helper did not give transport options such as - verbosity, progress, cloning, etc. to import and export based - helpers, like it did for fetch and push based helpers, robbing them - the chance to honor the wish of the end-users better. - - * The tests that wanted to see that file becomes unreadable after - running "chmod a-r file", and the tests that wanted to make sure it - is not run as root, we used "can we write into the / directory?" as - a cheap substitute, but on some platforms that is not a good - heuristics. The tests and their prerequisites have been updated to - check what they really require. - (merge f400e51 jk/sanity later to maint). - - * Various issues around "reflog expire", e.g. using --updateref when - expiring a reflog for a symbolic reference, have been corrected - and/or made saner. - - * The strbuf API was explained between the API documentation and in - the header file. Move missing bits to strbuf.h so that programmers - can check only one place for all necessary information. - - * The error handling functions and conventions are now documented in - the API manual. - - * Optimize attribute look-up, mostly useful in "git grep" on a - project that does not use many attributes, by avoiding it when we - (should) know that the attributes are not defined in the first - place. - - * Typofix in comments. - (merge ef2956a ak/git-pm-typofix later to maint). - - * Code clean-up. - (merge 0b868f0 sb/hex-object-name-is-at-most-41-bytes-long later to maint). - (merge 5d30851 dp/remove-duplicated-header-inclusion later to maint). - - * Simplify the ref transaction API around how "the ref should be - pointing at this object" is specified. - - -Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. - - -Fixes since v2.3 ----------------- - -Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.3 in the maintenance -track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' -notes for details). - - * "git blame HEAD -- missing" failed to correctly say "HEAD" when it - tried to say "No such path 'missing' in HEAD". - (merge a46442f jk/blame-commit-label later to maint). - - * "git rerere" (invoked internally from many mergy operations) did - not correctly signal errors when told to update the working tree - files and failed to do so for whatever reason. - (merge 89ea903 jn/rerere-fail-on-auto-update-failure later to maint). - - * Setting diff.submodule to 'log' made "git format-patch" produce - broken patches. - (merge 339de50 dk/format-patch-ignore-diff-submodule later to maint). - - * After attempting and failing a password-less authentication - (e.g. kerberos), libcURL refuses to fall back to password based - Basic authentication without a bit of help/encouragement. - (merge 4dbe664 bc/http-fallback-to-password-after-krb-fails later to maint). - - * The "git push" documentation made the "--repo=<there>" option - easily misunderstood. - (merge 57b92a7 mg/push-repo-option-doc later to maint). - - * Code to read branch name from various files in .git/ directory - would have misbehaved if the code to write them left an empty file. - (merge 66ec904 jk/status-read-branch-name-fix later to maint). - - * A misspelled conditional that is always true has been fixed. - (merge 94ee8e2 jk/remote-curl-an-array-in-struct-cannot-be-null later to maint). - - * The documentation incorrectly said that C(opy) and R(ename) are the - only ones that can be followed by the score number in the output in - the --raw format. - (merge ac1c2d9 jc/diff-format-doc later to maint). - - * A broken pack .idx file in the receiving repository prevented the - dumb http transport from fetching a good copy of it from the other - side. - (merge 8b9c2dd jk/dumb-http-idx-fetch-fix later to maint). - - * The error message from "git commit", when a non-existing author - name was given as value to the "--author=" parameter, has been - reworded to avoid misunderstanding. - (merge 1044b1f mg/commit-author-no-match-malformed-message later to maint). - - * "git log --help" used to show rev-list options that are irrelevant - to the "log" command. - (merge 3cab02d jc/doc-log-rev-list-options later to maint). - - * "git apply --whitespace=fix" used to under-allocate the memory when - the fix resulted in a longer text than the original patch. - (merge 407a792 jc/apply-ws-fix-expands later to maint). - - * The interactive "show a list and let the user choose from it" - interface "add -i" used showed and prompted to the user even when - the candidate list was empty, against which the only "choice" the - user could have made was to choose nothing. - (merge a9c4641 ak/add-i-empty-candidates later to maint). - - * The insn sheet "git rebase -i" creates did not fully honor - core.abbrev settings. - (merge edb72d5 ks/rebase-i-abbrev later to maint). - - * "git fetch" over a remote-helper that cannot respond to "list" - command could not fetch from a symbolic reference e.g. HEAD. - (merge 33cae54 mh/deref-symref-over-helper-transport later to maint). - - * "git push --signed" gave an incorrectly worded error message when - the other side did not support the capability. - (merge 45917f0 jc/push-cert later to maint). - - * We didn't format an integer that wouldn't fit in "int" but in - "uintmax_t" correctly. - (merge d306f3d jk/decimal-width-for-uintmax later to maint). - - * Reading configuration from a blob object, when it ends with a lone - CR, use to confuse the configuration parser. - (merge 1d0655c jk/config-no-ungetc-eof later to maint). - - * The pack bitmap support did not build with older versions of GCC. - (merge bd4e882 jk/pack-bitmap later to maint). - - * The documentation wasn't clear that "remote.<nick>.pushURL" and - "remote.<nick>.URL" are there to name the same repository accessed - via different transports, not two separate repositories. - (merge 697f652 jc/remote-set-url-doc later to maint). - - * Older GnuPG implementations may not correctly import the keyring - material we prepare for the tests to use. - (merge 1f985d6 ch/new-gpg-drops-rfc-1991 later to maint). - - * The credential helper for Windows (in contrib/) used to mishandle - a user name with an at-sign in it. - (merge 13d261e av/wincred-with-at-in-username-fix later to maint). - - * Longstanding configuration variable naming rules has been added to - the documentation. - (merge 35840a3 jc/conf-var-doc later to maint). - - * An earlier workaround to squelch unhelpful deprecation warnings - from the complier on Mac OSX unnecessarily set minimum required - version of the OS, which the user might want to raise (or lower) - for other reasons. - (merge 88c03eb es/squelch-openssl-warnings-on-macosx later to maint). - - * Certain older vintages of cURL give irregular output from - "curl-config --vernum", which confused our build system. - (merge 3af6792 tc/curl-vernum-output-broken-in-7.11 later to maint). - - * In v2.2.0, we broke "git prune" that runs in a repository that - borrows from an alternate object store. - (merge b0a4264 jk/prune-mtime later to maint). - - * "git submodule add" failed to squash "path/to/././submodule" to - "path/to/submodule". - (merge 8196e72 ps/submodule-sanitize-path-upon-add later to maint). - - * "git merge-file" did not work correctly in a subdirectory. - (merge 204a8ff ab/merge-file-prefix later to maint). - - * "git blame" died, trying to free an uninitialized piece of memory. - (merge e600592 es/blame-commit-info-fix later to maint). - - * "git fast-import" used to crash when it could not close and - conclude the resulting packfile cleanly. - (merge 5e915f3 jk/fast-import-die-nicely-fix later to maint). - - * "update-index --refresh" used to leak when an entry cannot be - refreshed for whatever reason. - (merge bc1c2ca sb/plug-leak-in-make-cache-entry later to maint). - - * The "interpolated-path" option of "git daemon" inserted any string - client declared on the "host=" capability request without checking. - Sanitize and limit %H and %CH to a saner and a valid DNS name. - (merge b485373 jk/daemon-interpolate later to maint). - - * "git daemon" looked up the hostname even when "%CH" and "%IP" - interpolations are not requested, which was unnecessary. - (merge dc8edc8 rs/daemon-interpolate later to maint). - - * Even though we officially haven't dropped Perl 5.8 support, the - Getopt::Long package that came with it does not support "--no-" - prefix to negate a boolean option; manually add support to help - people with older Getopt::Long package. - (merge f471494 km/send-email-getopt-long-workarounds later to maint). - - * "git apply" was not very careful about reading from, removing, - updating and creating paths outside the working tree (under - --index/--cached) or the current directory (when used as a - replacement for GNU patch). - (merge e0d201b jc/apply-beyond-symlink later to maint). - - * A breakage to git-svn around v2.2 era that triggers premature - closing of FileHandle has been corrected. - (merge e426311 ew/svn-maint-fixes later to maint). - - * We did not parse username followed by literal IPv6 address in SSH - transport URLs, e.g. ssh://user@[2001:db8::1]:22/repo.git - correctly. - (merge 3f55cca tb/connect-ipv6-parse-fix later to maint). - - * The configuration variable 'mailinfo.scissors' was hard to - discover in the documentation. - (merge afb5de7 mm/am-c-doc later to maint). - - * The interaction between "git submodule update" and the - submodule.*.update configuration was not clearly documented. - (merge 5c31acf ms/submodule-update-config-doc later to maint). - - * "git diff --shortstat --dirstat=changes" showed a dirstat based on - lines that was never asked by the end user in addition to the - dirstat that the user asked for. - (merge ab27389 mk/diff-shortstat-dirstat-fix later to maint). - - * "git remote add" mentioned "--tags" and "--no-tags" and was not - clear that fetch from the remote in the future will use the default - behaviour when neither is given to override it. - (merge aaba0ab mg/doc-remote-tags-or-not later to maint). - - * Description given by "grep -h" for its --exclude-standard option - was phrased poorly. - (merge 77fdb8a nd/grep-exclude-standard-help-fix later to maint). - - * The borrowed code in kwset API did not follow our usual convention - to use "unsigned char" to store values that range from 0-255. - (merge 189c860 bw/kwset-use-unsigned later to maint). - - * A corrupt input to "git diff -M" used to cause it to segfault. - (merge 4d6be03 jk/diffcore-rename-duplicate later to maint). - - * Code cleanups and documentaiton updates. - (merge 2ce63e9 rs/simple-cleanups later to maint). - (merge 33baa69 rj/no-xopen-source-for-cygwin later to maint). - (merge 817d03e jc/diff-test-updates later to maint). - (merge eb32c66 ak/t5516-typofix later to maint). - (merge bcd57cb mr/doc-clean-f-f later to maint). +Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.0.txt
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